Chapter 882: The Film Festival Opens
Domestic film festivals and award ceremonies always have a fixed process, and the leader delivers a speech. Cai Fuchao, Mayor of Beiping City and Director of the General Bureau, and Marco Muller, Chairman of the Venice Film Festival, delivered speeches respectively.
In fact, Zhang Ran was very disgusted with this link, and felt that it was a pure waste of time and life, and the leader crackled and talked a lot on it, but in fact, no one would take the content of the speech to heart. However, it is difficult for film festivals and award ceremonies in the mainland to avoid this link, and when the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival opens next year, there will definitely be speeches by leaders, and not one.
The opening ceremony performance was quite lively, including the song "You" sung by the famous singer Liu Huan by Zhao Jiping and Zhang Heping, the movie song "In That Distant Place" sung by singer Zhu Zheqin, the dance "Dazzling Jinghua", the dance "Flowing Clouds", and the dance "Moment of Passion". But I don't know why, Zhang Ran always feels that this is not like the opening ceremony of the film festival, there is not much cinematic flavor, coupled with the host's recitation, and the party-style program, it makes people feel like they are in the Spring Festival Gala.
Holding the opening ceremony of the film festival as the Spring Festival Gala, Zhang Ran really doesn't know whether to cry or laugh, but he will never allow the opening ceremony of the Fantasy Film Festival next year. If you come to the film festival to watch the movie, just organize everyone to watch the movie, is it so fancy?
After the opening ceremony lasted for a while, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu were invited to the stage as the image ambassadors of the film festival and were interviewed by the host.
Dong Qing said very enthusiastically: "Director Zhang, Jingchu, welcome to our scene." We all know that you two have participated in many domestic and international film festivals, but I wonder what kind of wishes and expectations you have for the Peking Film Festival?"
Zhang Jingchu smiled and said: "Our Chinese film center is in Beiping, 70% of the domestic film and television companies are concentrated in Beiping, there are so many film and television resources, but there is no film festival is really strange." Now that Peking finally has its own international film festival, I am very happy, and I sincerely wish that the Beiping Film Festival will get better and better and become a top international film festival!"
Dong Qing asked, "Director Zhang, what about you?"
Zhang Ran said seriously: "This is the first edition of our Peking International Film Festival, and compared with the current film festivals in the world, it is as immature as a baby. I don't think we need to compare ourselves with the prestigious projects in the world, but we should go our own way and do our own thing. I believe that Chinese films will definitely rise, and the Peking Film Festival will definitely become an influential film festival in the world. ”
Dong Qing smiled and said: "In our understanding, in addition to having a high reputation, the image ambassador should also have a dedication, love and unremitting pursuit of movies, and should also have good communication and communication skills, so I want to test two of them today." She looked at Zhang Jingchu and asked, "Jingchu, today we have more than 20 presidents of famous film festivals from all over the world, and we will introduce yourself to them in one sentence, so that they can understand you better and like you more." ”
Zhang Jing thought about this at the beginning, I need to recommend myself to them! But she was not easy to refute, and kept a smile on her face: "I don't recommend myself, I am the image ambassador of the film festival, or I recommend Chinese films, Chinese actors." We have a lot of excellent actors in China, and there are also many excellent movies, and I hope that more Chinese films can go to the world, and more actors can go to the international stage. ”
Dong Qing also realized that her problem was a bit silly, but she reacted quickly, and immediately smiled and said: "Jing Chu took this opportunity to recommend Chinese movies and all the actors to everyone, thank you Jing Chu." She stretched out the microphone in front of Dao Zhang Ran: "Director Zhang, today at the scene, there are more than 200 production institutions at home and abroad, please recommend Chinese movies to them in one sentence."
Zhang Ran smiled and said: "Girls, gentlemen, if you haven't watched a Chinese movie, you will definitely regret it, but if you watch a Chinese movie, you will regret it even more." This sentence made the audience in an uproar, and Dong Qing was also startled, what is the situation, how can Zhang Ran open his mouth and say nonsense? Zhang Ran saw that everyone was nervous, and explained with a smile: "Because you will regret not seeing Chinese movies earlier, and not learning about Chinese movies earlier." ”
The audience immediately burst into laughter and applause, and Dong Qing also pretended to exaggerate and said: "Director Zhang, you scared me, I thought there was a live broadcast accident!"
Zhang Ran laughed, looked at the guests in the audience and said: "The Peking Film Festival does not have a competition unit, I think this is actually very good, so that everyone can focus on the film itself." In my opinion, the screening of films is much more important than awards. However, there are no winners or losers at the Peking Film Festival, but I hope we can have winners, which are Chinese films and Peking films!"
The audience burst into warm applause.
After the 60-minute evening, the opening film of this year's film festival, "The World of Three Colors", was played. "The World of Three Colors" is adapted from Wang Jinkang's sci-fi of the same name, a few years ago, Ning Hao wanted to put this story on the big screen, but due to cost problems and some other reasons, it was not started until the beginning of last year.
The Peking Film Festival is an international film event, and "Three Colors World" not only has Zhang Ziyi, Gary Oldman, Michael Fassbender, but also Dongying's Aoi Yu, South Korea's Kim Yun-seok and other actors participated, which is the most international temperament among all the participating films, coupled with excellent quality, it is very suitable as the opening film of the first Peking Film Festival.
The movie "Three-Color World" was filmed in flashbacks, starting with Jiang Zhili being hunted down by the FBI, which tensed the audience's nerves from the beginning. Next, through Jiang Zhili's memories, Ning Hao told everyone about the whole incident and revealed why Jiang Zhili was hunted down.
It turned out that Jiang Zhili and his experimental team found in the laboratory that human beings can carry out telepathy through training, and this ability can only be done by yellow and black people, and white people have never been able to do it in the experiment. This caused panic in Sorel, the leader of the experimental team, who believed that the yellow and black people who had the ability to teleport would become supermen, and the whites would become mentally handicapped people and would be eliminated again. In order to avoid this situation, he and the whites of the experimental team killed the yellow and black people in the experimental team, and only Jiang Zhili was more vigilant and escaped. In order to prevent the secret from being leaked, Sorel notified the FBI and launched an arrest and hunt for Jiang Zhili.
"The World of the Three Colors" is an anti-racist film, and naturally it is impossible to portray all Caucasian people as demons. On the way to escape, Jiang Zhili received help from many white people, and some people even knew that Jiang Zhili was hunted down because of racist rules, but still helped her.
With the help of Barbas, played by Morgan Freeman, Jiang Zhili sent a letter asking for help on the Internet, announcing her experiment and the reason for being hunted and killed. Jiang Zhili's letter of request for help attracted tremendous attention from the public and the media, countless protest calls and calls to the Hoover Building, the press flocked to the press, the electronic paper "Horn" and "Science Motto" were the first to publish special reports, and the Chinese Embassy in the United States also expressed serious concern about this matter; at this time, Sorel also suddenly discovered that white people can actually master the ability to transmit telekinesis, but there was a problem in the process of experimentation, and they never realized it. So, the FBI retreated, and Jiang Zhili was saved.
At the end of the movie, Jiang Zhili refused to be retained by the U.S. government and resolutely returned to China, because that was his home.
"The World of Three Colors" is a novella, the story is relatively simple, and Ning Hao has made a lot of modifications and adjustments to the story. In the middle, Jiang Zhili was the kind of charming girl who was particularly infatuated with white people at first, and was Sorel's lover, and finally because Sorel killed the rest of the laboratory, and even she was ready to kill her, she suddenly woke up. This character is very realistic, and there are many such women in reality. However, there is nothing wrong with such a role as a supporting role in the movie, but it is difficult for domestic audiences to accept it as the protagonist. Therefore, Ning Hao made a lot of modifications to Jiang Zhili's image and removed the negative things.
In the movie, it was changed that both the yellow race and the black race have this ability, which was Zhang Ran's idea. When the last "Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" was released in the United States, it was described by the American media as nationalism and chauvinism, and it was also said that the movie demonized the Japanese army that invaded China. If only the yellow race in "The World of Three Colors" had the ability to teleport and then be hunted down by white people, the movie would have been labeled nationalist and racist after its release in the United States. But with the addition of black people, it is different, now the United States is the typical Black Lives Matter, coupled with the racial theme of the movie, "The World of Three Colors" has become a politically correct movie, turned into an anti-racist masterpiece, and avoided political turmoil.
In "Three-Color World", director Ning Hao showed super creativity, using a lot of handheld photography, through rapid splicing of fragments, coupled with short and powerful sound effects, to create a fierce and sharp style, bringing a huge visual impact to the audience. Several leading actors in the movie, whether it is Jiang Zhili played by Zhang Ziyi, or Sorrell played by Gary Oldman, and Eastman played by Michael Fassbender all gave top-notch performances, adding a lot to the movie.
After the screening, there was silence for several seconds, and then there was a burst of applause.
But while applauding, many viewers, and even some spiritual Americans, pondered the question of whether the white elites who paid lip service to freedom and fraternity would also become racists if the rules in the movies really existed.
On the afternoon of the 26th, the crew of "Future Apocalypse" held a press conference at the Peking Hotel. Super blockbusters like "Future Apocalypse" have a long promotional cycle, during which material is constantly released, and blockbuster materials are usually released at film festivals such as Cannes and Toronto. These film festivals have a large number of media attendees and great influence, and can quickly gain attention. "Future Apocalypse" can hold the press conference at a new film festival like Beiping, which is completely Zhang Ran to give face to the organizing committee.
"Future Apocalypse" is a movie that has attracted global attention, and major media outlets have naturally flocked to it. According to the regulations, only journalists can attend the press conference, and journalists must bring their ID and must be confirmed by security before entering the venue.
Even so, fans who knew that "Future Apocalypse" was going to hold a press conference quickly mobilized and fought for admission from various channels, hoping to record their idol's actions at the press conference. The scalpers also quickly eyed the press conference and fired the admission qualification to 20,000 yuan each.
At 3:30, Zhang Ran brought the leading actors Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, and Scarlett Johansson to the press conference. After he walked on the stage, he greeted the reporter with a smile: "Everyone has worked hard. ”
A reporter stood up and immediately said: "Director Zhang, you are the vice chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Film Festival, you should take care of it, the organization of the Peking Film Festival this time is too chaotic, we were blocked outside by the security guards for nearly two hours just now, it is too much!"
Zhang Ran was stunned when he heard this, frowned and asked, "What the hell is going on?"
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